@sbvanoosten
Political scientist at University of Oxford. Voting, elections, discrimination, conjoint/field experiments, in-group voting, immigration attitudes, politics, representation. https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/people/sanne-van-oosten/
Ethnic minority presence in the boardroom.
FTSE 100: 98/100 firms, from 52% in 2019
56% > 1 person
20% of board roles in FTSE100
FTSE 250: 205/350 firms (82%), from 22% in 2019
Parker Review 2026
It was great to present, w/ @stefaniesprong.bsky.social, fresh findings from the @equalstrength.bsky.social project at @compasoxford.bsky.social in Oxford.
Our team can't wait to present the first comparative, cross-domain field experiment on ethnic discrimination in Europe at the next conferences!
It was amazing to be there in person and that our teams across Europe watched along as well. Looking forward to seeing and giving more presentations with this amazing data we worked so hard to collect.
This Thursday @stefaniesprong.bsky.social and @distasioval.bsky.social will present research findings from the @equalstrength.bsky.social-consortium. I'm really looking forward to seeing all of the team's hard work be presented. Join in Oxford or online at 3h45 on Thursday March 5th.
yay, looking forward!
🤓Thursday February 19th at 15h45 @ Oxford and online:
Katharina Lawall will discuss how disinformation instrumentalising gender equality to further radical right ideologies can be set straight.
Join us in this hybrid seminar by @katharinalawall.bsky.social about femonationalism
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Solo-authored article accepted for publication in the European Political Science Review (EPSR)
Affinity voting in Europe:
The impact of religion, migration background and gender on preferences for in-group politicians
Pre-print of accepted version available here:
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
Really looking forward to this talk by @profsob.bsky.social tomorrow in Oxford and online. Join online or in Oxford!
Poster with text: The Politics of Immigration and Exclusion Seminar: Racism without racists: Colour-blind ideology in post-Brexit Britain
How do attitudes towards race and ethnicity shape political views in Britain?
Join us on 05 Feb at 15.45 (GMT) as
@profsob.bsky.social explores this topic, with a focus on racial colour blindness in post-Brexit Britain.
Attendance is free and open to all
🔗 www.compas.ox.ac.uk/event/the-po...
Really looking forward to this seminar by @turnbulldugarte.com on Thursday. Drop by if you are in Oxford (+ for drinks after) or join online. Stuart is an amazing speaker and this research is as timely as ever.
Across Europe, social democratic parties are increasingly adopting restrictive immigration rhetoric in response to the electoral success of radical right parties.
Join Dr Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte this Thursday, 22 January, to learn more about this trend. The seminar is free and open to all. ⬇️
“Flood the zone with shit” - zei Trump ooit. In zijn tweede termijn doet hij precies dat: een constante stroom aan decreten, tweets en controverse. Feiten vervagen en kritiek wordt bijna onmogelijk. ➡️ Hoe doorbreek je die chaos? 🌪️ We onderzoeken het op 20 januari, meld je gratis aan: buff.ly/6Ihtjuv
🥳 New year, new publication
📑"Contested memories: the political effects of de-commemoration proposals" @jeppjournal.bsky.social
With Francesco Colombo, we study a street renaming proposal in Berlin and find -contrary to conventional wisdom- no political backlash, but a positive feedback effect.
We are happy to release the Paths to Power Dashboard. It is the perfect tool for politics nerds!
You can find it here: ptp.isv.sv.uio.no/ptp/
It allows you to explore governments from 1966-2021 using the PtP and WhoGov datasets. See examples below.
The app has been programmed by Stuart Bramwell.
Survey experiments' popularity in political science is getting attention. What is good and bad about them? How can one maximize their benefits and mitigate their downsides?
Greg Huber and I wrote up our thoughts:
Paywalled: doi.org/10.1016/bs.h...
Free: m-graham.com/papers/Huber...
Populists and socialists are more likely than other politicians to come from lower-class families, and social democrats to have less educated parents. Yet both groups are just as likely to have highly educated and higher class friends and partners journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Given that only a third of the hypotheses were supported, one takeaway is that our theories are crap.
Another great @jeppjournal.bsky.social paper I'm happy to have edited is out here, on workers' descriptive representation, by @manuelwagner.bsky.social and @laurenzennser.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Many studies attribute the success of right-wing parties to sexism.
What is sexism? How is it measured? How does it influence elections?
My systematic review of studies on sexism as a predictor of political behavior and attitudes is about to appear in @poqjournal.bsky.social!
1/7
Abstract It is widely accepted in political science – and remarkably established in public discourse – that status anxieties fuel a far right backlash against progressive politics. This narrative suggests that right-wing conservatives perceive the status of women, racial, or sexual minorities as threatening. Using open-ended survey questions fielded in Germany, we show that women and minorities indeed figure in people’s perceptions of status hierarchies, but in very specific ways: First, overall, people still perceive status as largely socioeconomically determined. Second, sociocultural groups figure in perceptions of who is gaining/losing status, less so in perceptions of the top/bottom of society. Third, more than conservative voters, it is social progressives who mention women and minorities as “winners”. While on race/ethnicity, we find evidence for a backlash, on gender and sexuality we find more evidence for a progressive momentum. This matters for progressive politics today and for how we empirically study status concerns.
New article out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Tabea Palmtag and @dpzollinger.bsky.social 📝
We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...
My latest for the Observer on the growing Green threat to Labour and why London’s “all up” local elections could provide some of the biggest drama in this May’s local and devolved elections observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
On my way to Florence, where I will be presenting at the EUI's PBC @behaviour-eui.bsky.social a project co-authored w/ @leonardocarella.bsky.social
We show that (anti-immigration) 🇬🇧🇮🇹 people 'update' their social identity when primed with narratives pitting immigrants against other social groups
Hahaha.
We've started calling it LoWa for a long walk and ShoWa for a short walk.
He hasn't deciphered it yet... yet...
I've had the honour to convene this seminar series about the politics of immigration and exclusion.
Looking forward to learning more about the research by @turnbulldugarte.com @profsob.bsky.social @katharinalawall.bsky.social @distasioval.bsky.social and @stefaniesprong.bsky.social + drinks after!
My husband is a romantic guy.
He told me to take my passport and come with him for a surprise and said it would be a bit... nerdy?
We went by train to Rotterdam to the Fenix Art Museum About Migration.
A phenomenal museum, especially if you're a migration scholar nerd like me 😅
fenix.nl/en/
Survey researchers, have you thought about the political consequences of miscategorizing respondents' identities?
Raymundo Lopez (ABD, raymundolopez.com/index.html) has written a wonderful summary of my APSR on PS Now (@apsa.bsky.social).
Read it here! politicalsciencenow.com/the-politics...
Just in time for Christmas: a great interview with an absolute legend.
Theda Skocpol and Edwin Amenta on her career, US politics, the erosion of democracy, and most of all, what to do about it.
sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...
In our first paper on instrumental inclusion we showed that people update their views on LGBTQ+ rights in response to out-group threat.
Here we extend the theory to test diverse cases of selective inclusion
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
New publication with @turnbulldugarte.com in @psrm.bsky.social! 🧵
We study whether citizens’ liberal values are selective: do people support policies based on who promotes them?
Short answer: Yes, and it's driven by ethnic out-group disidentification. (1/11) 👇
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...